Asphodel from Invicta by Serpent Column
Tracklist
| 1. | Asphodel | 14:14 |
Lyrics
Now Helios is come to our mountain.
Noon is eternal.
It scorches the garden
Belted
By aster
Clouds over Pisa
Thule
Eden
The steppe
Strewn
With fawn
And asphodel.
A glaive
Rising against heaven
Helios smiling
Radiant and cruel.
Our oubliette
Or farce
Sputtering along
As nebulae
Unfurl.
Noon is eternal.
Golden face
Prism wing
Lashed by fires
Wail
δακρύων.
γέα
Mother
Are there sparrows in the forest?
Will it burst into flower
Or flame?
Frost scars the cattails
Black wing
Red areolae
Sing
δακρύων.
A golden eye
Parting the clouds
Ten thousand
Iridescent
Tumbling in helix
Steps descending
To a bed of coals.
Helios,
Your million fingers,
They are like fire,
Like daggers
In viscera
None can hide
Neither vore
Nor mollusk
Black wing
Or red
Not the meridians, crumbling
Nor the rivers, reeling
When all shall sing
This land was of Dione
And under her planet
The mountain and shut garden
Here rested
δακρύων.
